Clik here to view.
Playing 13th Age at Penny Arcade
I’ve been running some great games of 13thAge lately. This is a long writeup of the game we played at Penny Arcade on Wednesday. Jerry TYCHO Holkins and Mike GABE Krahulik were joined at the table by...
View Article13th Age at ZoeCon
I ran a two hour demo session of 13th Age at ZoeCon last week for five players. I was deadline -rushed working on 13thAge so I didn’t otherwise partake of the convention, but I did catch up with a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guide to Glorantha & a signature stone
When Jonathan and I directly address the reader in 13th Age, we mark our comments with signature tiles. Jonathan's tile is in the style of the Archmage. My tile, created by Lee Moyer, is a black stone,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Finding Trust: a photography book
Eeya #1My friend Annie Marie Musselman has a beautiful book of animal rescue photos that will be published by Kehrer Verlag later this year. She is running a Kickstarter that ends early next week to...
View ArticlePlaytest Impact Registers in the End
I had a fun day digging through the 13th Age playtester reports this week. For a change I wasn't looking for comments or problems, this time I was hunting for playtester names, working to complete the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
new this week
This week the 13th Age campaign I'm running that's testing aspects of Shards of the Broken Sky hit its stride by starting to tell its own unique story. The icons are not all who they seem and the PCs...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mantis vs. Mantis
The art above is the first thumbnail by Aaron McConnell from one of the winners of the Monster Art +13 mini-essay contest we ran for backers of the 13 True Ways Kickstarter. A backer I know only as The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Feathered Crown!
There are three Alchemist-tier 13 True Ways Kickstarter backers who gave us magic items to illustrate.The first item is the Feathered Crown from Jered Heeschen. Look at the art from Aaron McConnell...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Final Mantis
This is the first completed piece of Monster Art +13 from the 13 True Ways book. As you can see, Aaron McConnell had a lot more in mind than the striking parallel lines of the original Mantis vs....
View ArticleGood news, bad news
The good news is that no one got hurt. As good news goes, that's pretty much the absence of truly terrible news.Chris Huth's apartment building in Toronto burnt down, making Chris and his girlfriend...
View ArticleThree Strikes Lightning
Cleaning my desk I uncovered an envelope with two stories scrawled on its back, stories I heard in two of the rare moments I wasn't carrying a notebook.The top of the envelope is a list of curious but...
View ArticleManos: the Hands of the Internet
Bruce Baugh introduced me to the Internet. We were both living in Portland in the late 80s and very early 90s. I remember Bruce showing me that his computer was dialing up a system that let it link to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fawning candy blink dogs
A couple months ago Ken Hite was putting together the monster list for the upcoming 13th Age Bestiary from Pelgrane Press. I'd been helping with suggestions and sample monster write-ups. Then I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Museum Fantasy
Sometimes working at what you love pays off in ways you would never have predicted. I've always loved the Science Fiction Museum at the EMP, even in the early days when it felt like not much more than...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Murder pixies
David Kaehler was one of the winners of the Monster Art +13 contest for the 13 True Ways Kickstarter.David asked for a somewhat straightforward illustration of pixies in a mushroom circle firing sleep...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Five 13th Age Progressions
1. The cover above is our first rough draft. Aaron and Lee still have lots of work they plan to do on it. That's a wind-and-lightning powered druid fighting a dragon who has yet to be revealed. It...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Middle of Amber
I was going to write a blog post suggesting that people support the Lords of Gossamer & Shadow Kickstarter that is taking up where the Amber rpg by Eric Wujcik left off. The Kickstarter has about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tarot Chariot
My friend Theresa has got a photo/design project running called the Portland Tarot. I loved the first images, one of which you see above, and have been hoping that she would continue the work into a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Night of the Blue or Off-Pink Death Save Ninja
Last night's 13th Age session was even madder than usual. Three of the six players in the Wednesday night group were rejoining our campaign after finishing several weeks of a mad sprint to get a great...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shadowrun's Icons
One thing I've loved about helping design the Shadowrun: Crossfire game has been getting back in touch with the Shadowrun universe. SR's mix of orcs and Uzis and Kurosawa-tinged street noir is good for...
View Article
/pic9814888.png)
/fit-in/580x348/filters:format(webp)/english-betterindia/media/media_files/2026/09/17/balaghat-4-2026-09-17-19-01-31.png)
